clued
/kluːd/
"clued" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clued” is uncommon English (frequency #59,277 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,277
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of clue
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clued |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kluːd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clued” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
clued is uncommon English at frequency #59,277 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kluːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of clue".
clued has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is clued, spelled C-L-U-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of clue
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “clued”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-L-U-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kluːd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.